ISG News has posted a new item, 'New SSL certificates for ISG D-PHYS web based
services'
For a long time we used so called wildcard SSL certificates for most of our web
sites and services. Especially newer web browsers issued warnings about them. We
recently exchanged the wildcard certificate on https://www.phys.ethz.ch/ and
other websites to a new type of SSL certificate listing all websites hosted on
that machine. Since today also our infrastructure servers (e.g.
https://registration.phys.ethz.ch/), have such a new SSL certificate.
If you have installed our CA certificate as described in our article How to
configure web browsers, the new certificates won't cause any more security
warnings. If you have not installed our CA certificate in your web browser, a
warning about a new unknown certificate will pop up for many of our SSL-enabled
websites every time we add a new website. Because a new website means that we
have to generate a new SSL certificate for the whole web server the new site is
hosted on. We therefore recommend to install our CA certificate in your web
browser to avoid those annoying warnings on D-PHYS websites.
You may view the latest post at
https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2009/03/23/new-ssl-certificates-for-isg-d-phy…
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ISG News has posted a new item, 'Microsoft Security Bulletin for March 2009'
Last night Microsoft has released the Security Bulletin Summary for March,
2009.
There are 1 critical and 2 important updates.
If Automatic Update is not activated yet, then you must visit Microsoft Update
to install the Security Updates.
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https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2009/03/11/microsoft-security-bulletin-for-ma…
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Patrick Frei
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ISG News has posted a new item, 'Change in AFS Policy at ETH'
The Informatikdienste of ETH will change their AFS policy by March 31 of this
year. AFS functionality will be provided through a dataless AFS cell at ETH.
If you still require an AFS account which is connected to storage you need to
act now and arrange an agreement for your use or move your data to some other
place. Please consider the following points:
data on the ETH AFS server: This service will only be available under a
contract with the Informatikdienste as a paid service. We recommend moving your
data away from AFS if possible. NAS services (SMB/CIFS, NFS) are available from
the Informatikdienste or the Department of Physics. Please ask the ISG D-PHYS
if you need help or advice.
an AFS identity as user coming from the ETH: If you own data on other AFS
servers around the world that are tied to your AFS identity from ETH you may
want to keep your ETH AFS identity or transfer ownership to some other AFS
identity. This service will be provided by Informatikdienste as a general
service free of charge but only upon request. If you need this please let us
(isg(a)phys.ethz.ch and tilo.steiger(a)id.ethz.ch) know.
access of AFS servers as an anonymous user: This service will continue for the
foreseeable future without further action required from your side at this time.
Without a reaction from your side we assume that you don't need an AFS account
anymore and you will become an anonymous user to AFS.
Note: you can use an AFS identity from another cell if you have one. You don't
need an ETH AFS identity for that. E.g., to use your CERN AFS identity on the
Linux workstations use klog -cell cern.ch
Further reading: Wer braucht noch AFS??? by Tilo Steiger at the ID-Blog
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ISG News has posted a new item, 'Migration of group directories'
We need to move most some of the group directories to a bigger fileserver.
This will be done on Thursday, 5. March, between 19:00 and 21:00.
During this time most some of the group directories (windata, macdata,
unixdata) will be limited to read-only access, and the others will have a short
interruption of availability.
To protect you from losing or corrupting any of your files, we strongly
recommend you close all open files on the group directories.
Since we have switched to generic names for our services, the group directories
will still be accessible the same way as before, so you don't have to change
anything.
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https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2009/03/02/migration-of-group-directories/
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Schmid Patrick
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